Rob Ogilvie

My mom spent weeks building us a family cookbook, then lost the file forever. Retyping it for the next generation was never going to happen — until AI made the impossible chore small enough to actually do. That's the part of this that matters to me.

I'm in Hawaii on vacation for a week, building an ant colony simulation from a lanai overlooking the water. It looked exactly like vibe coding. It was the opposite of vibe coding, and that's the whole reason it worked.

Spoilers ahead. Read Project Hail Mary again with one substitution — Rocky is the human, and we are the aliens — and everything fits better.

People learn to do things better when feedback comes quickly. AI gives you the opportunity to dramatically shift that loop and get feedback immediately, before you send the email or open the pull request.

The tech debt conversation just split in two, and one half is on fire. For decades, tech debt has been a quiet negotiation with the future.

Simon Sinek

Patrick Lencioni

Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford

Browser-based colony sim in the SimAnt lineage — tune pheromones, dig your nest, and outmaneuver a rival AI colony.

Open-source Claude skill that builds evidence-based running plans — ACWR, 80/20, deload weeks, Strava integration.

Decades of loose family recipe cards, digitized into a calm, accessible archive — cook-by-weight, offline-friendly, and built in plain text to outlast its own framework.

Ranked-choice group decisions without the spreadsheet. For when your friends can't pick a restaurant.

Season planning, workouts, and training load for cross-country coaches and their runners.

A field guide to abandoned mobile homes being reclaimed by nature, framed as patient-zero outbreak surveillance. Submit a sighting.

A deadpan satirical briefing on the suppressed goat-hoof origins of commercial oatmeal. Strictly for the bit.